mike.tan has added a photo to the pool:
The onsen town is built along the side of the mountain, and has a long row of stairs (365 steps) running along the main thoroughfare.
It’s refreshing to see him dial down the ignorant-ingenue approach and go harder than usual. But there is too little examination of how online misogyny affects those who didn’t choose to be part of it
He’s a bit late to the party, is the first thought that crosses your mind when faced with the prospect of 90 minutes of Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere. I’ve lost count of the number of documentaries there have been on either specific leading lights in the lucrative online misogyny business, such as Andrew Tate, or the general phenomenon (the latter most recently by James Blake with Men of the Manosphere).
Still, can a subject really be said to have been “done” until we have seen what Louis T makes of it? Evidently not, so here he is, repeating his shtick as he covers ground that other less high-profile documentarians have done before him. To be fair, he approaches his interviewees with a slightly harder, less ignorant-ingenue vibe than usual. This is pleasing on many levels. I find the latter quite an effortful pose and increasingly hard to endure, and he rightly intuits that the full version wouldn’t fly here. It’s also simply getting old. We know he is an intelligent man who lives in this world – the silent supposed bafflement and dependence on giving people enough rope to hang themselves, which are such a large part of his arsenal, look like increasingly feeble weapons when the matters are of such increasing importance in all of our lives.
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Hereditary peerages will be abolished before the next king’s speech after a deal was struck granting life peerages to some Conservatives and cross-benchers losing their seats.
On Tuesday evening the upper chamber accepted a final draft of the House of Lords (hereditary peers) bill, marking the end of its passage through parliament and clearing the way for it to be added to the statute book.
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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Meer dan honderd economen, hoogleraren en lectoren roepen het kabinet op af te zien van de voorgestelde miljardensubsidie aan Tata Steel Nederland. De oproep wordt gedaan in een gezamenlijke brief aan de Tweede Kamer en het kabinet. De brief, gepubliceerd in het weekblad Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB), verschijnt enkele weken voor het Kamerdebat over de overeenkomst met de staalproducent.
In september 2025 sloot het toenmalige kabinet een intentieverklaring met Tata Steel Nederland over de verduurzaming van de locatie in IJmuiden. Daarbij werd toegezegd dat de overheid hieraan 2 miljard euro kan bijdragen. Volgens de economen kunnen deze publieke middelen echter veel effectiever worden ingezet voor investeringen die het concurrentievermogen van Nederland echt ondersteunen.
Het gaat daarbij niet alleen om de 2 miljard euro aan subsidie, maar ook om zaken als arbeidscapaciteit, fysieke ruimte, milieuruimte waaronder stikstof en de schaarse duurzame energie en netcapaciteit. Op dit alles legt Tata Steel IJmuiden een aanzienlijk beslag en wordt de ruimte voor verduurzaming en groei van andere economische activiteiten beperkt.
Het streven naar strategische autonomie, ofwel een Europese staalindustrie die is ingericht op de lange termijn, kan volgens de economen een legitiem argument zijn. Maar dat vereist Europese coördinatie via Europese aanbestedingen. Voor Nederland is strategische autonomie volgens hen echter een illusie. In een land zonder ijzererts dat alle grondstoffen importeert, maakt het voor autonomie weinig verschil of grondstoffen of staal wordt geïmporteerd, vooral als de productie van staal grotendeels voor de export is.
Ook blijft de staalproductie in Nederland structureel duurder dan elders in Europa door hogere energiekosten, waarschuwen de economen. Daarnaast ontbreekt in de voorlopige afspraken een harde, afdwingbare garantie van Tata Steel India om verliezen in IJmuiden op te vangen of aanvullende investeringen te financieren. In het geval van verdere verliezen, herstructurering of faillissement zijn de publieke middelen daardoor onvoldoende beschermd en dreigt Tata Steel bij iedere tegenvaller terug te komen voor aanvullende publieke steun.
De brief is ondertekend door economen van onder meer de universiteiten van Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Groningen en Maastricht. Onder de ondertekenaars bevinden zich Arnoud Boot (UvA), Roel Beetsma (UvA) en Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford).